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.in Carbureters 5 and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the UNITED STATESV PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL J. BYRNE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

C ARBU'RETER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,640, dated September 28, 1897.

Application filed January 2, 1897.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL J. BYRNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington city, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvelnents invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which forms a part of this specification.

The special object of the invention is to make an apparatus by which air or gas may be cheaply and conveniently carbureted for illuminating purposes, so that private persons and families may at little expense maketheir own gas as vthey wish to use it.

The drawing is a vertical diametrical section of the carbureter with its inlet and out-V let pipes partly in section or broken away.

In the drawing, A represents the hydrocarbon-chamber, with the air-tight cover a and upwardly-tapering neck a". In the latter is centrally located the four-way tube `]3,i n which screws a bushing C, internallythreaded to receive the vertically-pendent and open-ended tube D. The lower end of tube D screws into a fourway tube B', on which rests the washer b', while upon this Washeris supported thereticulated plate or diaphragm E. Parallel to the latter is arranged a similar diaphragm E', both upwardly convened, while between them is arranged the absorbent E2, which is more or less compressed. Through the middle of the diaphragms and absorbent passes the air-tube D, and over the'upper diaphragm is the gas-chamber F', and under the lower` one the air-chamber F2.

VThe four-way tube B is provided with the three bushings C C C2 for the air-tube D and Serial No. 617,745. (No model.)

the pipes G G', the latter being jointed by the three-way tubes I-I to the U -pipe H', which is connected at its middle by a three-way tube H2 with the superposed hydrocarbon-tank I. From this tank, preferably lled with vgasolene and provided with a cock e to regulate the flow of the liquid, the hydrocarbon is carried by gravity through the U-tube H and falls upon the greatest conveXity of the diaphragm E', over which itspreads and finds its way through the diaphragm-perforations to the absorbent. The air is' injected by any suitable compressor into vand through the tube D to ythe chamber F2, in which it is dispersed' Vbut What I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-- An air-carbureter having the cover a with tapering neck et', afour-way tube fitting in saidl neck, bushings in said four-way tube, air-tube D, the pipes G G' and the pipe I-I jointed by three-way tubes to the pipes G G and the tank I, all combined and arranged as shown and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

l DANIEL J. BYRNE. Witnesses: Y

THOMAS A. CRUIKSHANK, HENRY K. WHITE. 

